Guillermo Menéndez Sánchez
Guillermo Menéndez Sánchez has undertaken a research stay at the University of Cantabria from September to December 2025. As part of it, he participated in the group’s activities by giving a seminar on Manichaeism and by discussing postdoctoral opportunities for our early-career researchers.
He is currently a FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University (2024-2027) with the project ‘Coexistence, Conflict, Persecution: The Revival and Extinction of Manichaeism in the Eastern Mediterranean World.’
Guillermo’s main research interests include Late Antiquity, History of Early Christianity, History of Gnosticism, and Byzantine History. In particular, he is interested in the History of Manichaeism, and the legacy that this religious group left in the society and culture of the Mediterranean world.